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Thursday, May 5th, 5:30, in Room B310 on Dalhousie's Sexton Campus, 1360 Barrington St. Open to ALL, FREE, Registration Required Dr. Richard Vallee, of AMIRIX, a leading design house for the embedded system industry, will be delivering a presentation on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), reviewing FPGA trends, and in particular, the features of the powerful and popular Xilinx Virtex II Pro. For those who attended the recent ASIC presentation, the FPGA is an alternate to the full-custom approach, allowing users to rapidly implement a chip design via a proven platform! The AMIRIX AP100 PCI Platform FPGA Development Board along with sample Platform FPGA designs completed using the board will be discussed. Demonstrations of Platform FPGA solutions using TimeSys Real Time Linux on the AP100 board will also be presented. 'AMIRIX provides custom electronic design services for the embedded industry to help companies develop new products and enhance existing ones. AMIRIX manages projects that involve architectural system design and analysis, as well as detailed design and implementation in the form of FPGA design, high performance circuit board design, and embedded software design. AMIRIX has delivered hundreds of design solutions to customers in a broad range of markets including; telecommunications, defence and aerospace, medical devices and imaging, industrial controls, and gaming applications.' Richard Vallee is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for AMIRIX Systems. Richard joined AMIRIX in November 1986, and has developed embedded system solutions for over 15 years. Richard received his Ph.D. in EE from the Technical University of Nova Scotia in 1993, an Electrical M.Eng degree from Carleton University in 1985, and a B.Sc. Physics degree from St.F.X. in 1982. In addition, Richard completed an executive MBA with St. Mary's in 1999. Richard has recently been named an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Dalhousie University, and is interested in both the Technical and Business challenges faced by the electronics design industry. Sincerely,
Marc Murphy
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